Product Description: Print gallery-quality photos with superior fade resistance on a variety of papers more than 200 years on HP Advanced Photo Paper using proprietary HP Vivera pigment inks. Professional photos look just as they did through the lens or on the PC, with precision color consistency you can rely on from your first print to your last. Prints are also exceptionally water, smudge and humidity-resistant. Black-and-white photos show true neutral grays and deep blacks, high contrast and smooth transitions. Photo black ink is optimized for a variety of fine art papers featuring a matte finish, such as photo rag, watercolor and canvas. Easily replace one color at a time not the entire printhead. With eight individual ink cartridges including a photo black there's no need to swap blacks for different artistic finishes. The long-lasting, high-capacity cartridges require replacement less often.
Amazon.com Product Description: Get ready to print brilliant, true-to-life photos and fine-art prints with HP's new pigment-based Vivera inks. They produce a wide range of colors, rich blacks, and true grays on a variety of paper types, plus consistently excellent color rendition and gradation.
Print long-lasting color photos that resist fading for more than 200 years1
Use with many papers, including matte and high gloss, fine art and photo; the ink is optimized for a wide variety
Ward off water, smudges, and humidity when using HP Advanced Photo Paper and many other photo and fine-art papers
Get precision color consistency and vivid, true-to-life hues
Bring out neutral grays and deep blacks, plus get excellent contrast and smooth transitions in black-and-white photos
Replace only the cartridges that runs out among eight individual colors
Specifications Cartridge yield: approx. 840 4 x 6" or 80 13 x 19"color photos; average yield depends on specific use, including images, printer, print settings, and other factors Ink volume: 27 ml
About HP Vivera Inks Choose original HP Vivera inks for professional-quality, long-lasting photos at home. Benefits of HP Vivera inks include:
Affordable studio-quality photos: HP Vivera inks offer radiant color, enhanced shadow detail, and reduced image grain for stunning color prints and exceptional black-and-white images.
True-to-life colors: HP Vivera inks create up to 72.9 million rich, brilliant colors to bring your photos to life.
Longest-lasting prints: HP Vivera inks give you bright, vivid, amazing colors that resist fading for 108 years.2
1. Based on preliminary light fade testing under glass and storage permanence (thermal degradation) testing by Wilhelm Imaging Research using select HP Paper, including Advanced Photo Paper. 2. Based on Wilhelm Imaging Research, Inc., light fade testing under glass (as of January 2005) on HP Premium Plus Photo Paper.
What's in the box One HP 38 Light Gray Pigment Ink Cartridge (C9414A)
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - $27/27ml not bad for price
Light Grey is the most used ink in my HP B9180. This cartridge has 27ml of ink selling for 27 dollars which is not bad. Canon's inks are around that price range as well but come in smaller 13ml tanks. ... Read More
Rating: - Light gray ink B9180
If you can afford this printer don't complain about the ink price. It's pigment based ink, that's how they make money off the printer don't you know. We'd all like to be able to print for free, but it doesn't ... Read More
Rating: - Runs out too fast!
Just one thing about this ink--and maybe any ink.
It runs out too fast!
Rating: - Very Good Ink in VERY Small Containers
As inks go, this appears to be very good stuff. In fact, they say it's guaranteed to last 200+ years, although I'm not sure who around me will go ask for a free cartridge if my documents or photos only last 150 ... Read More
Rating: - Amazon makes a deal
HP 38 inks are very high-priced, so the Amazon price combined with super saver shipping is the best deal available. As for the ink, as it is essential to use the HP B9180 printer, what can one say. The inks do their ... Read More
- $27/27ml not bad for price
- Runs out too fast!
- Very Good Ink in VERY Small Containers